A look at some new book releases this week. For more on these and other books, go to bookreporter.com.

“The Impossible Dead” by Ian Rankin - Fiction (Reagan Arthur Books) — A major inquiry into a neighboring police force sees Malcolm Fox and his colleagues cast adrift, unsure of territory, protocol, or who they can trust.

“Explosive Eighteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel” by Janet Evanovich — Mystery(Bantam) — On the way back from a trip to Hawaii, her dream vacation-turned-nightmare, Stephanie Plum is roped into a complex case when her seatmate on the flight is found dead in a garbage can after the L.A. layover — and she alone may hold critical evidence.

“Micro” by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston - Fiction(Harper) — “Micro” follows a group of graduate students lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company — only to find themselves physically transformed and cast out into the rain forest, with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them.